Ex-Army Transport Ltd

[Vivienne14]

Couldn’t quite make this out. It’s a social club occasion for a company named Ex-Army Transport Ltd. Can’t find anything out about them. Would this have been a company dealing with old army stock ? If so I expect they became valuable to the government given the closeness to the outbreak of WW2.

Viv.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Pedrocut]

Their Address was Butler St. Nechells.

 

[PA739]

Looks as if Ex. Army Transport Ltd., was a national company, but sub-contracted work out to existing haulage companies.
See attached picture.
PA739

 

[Vivienne14]

Interesting PA, thank you. Viv.

 

[Pedrocut]

March 1939, Evening Sentinel shows Cooke and Burgess, Haulage Contractors, partnership dissolved. Maybe Ex-Army took over their truck ? I think 1939 is the earliest mention of Ex-Army Transport.

 

[Pedrocut]

Looks as if Ex. Army Transport Ltd., was a national company, but sub-contracted work out to existing haulage companies.
See attached picture.
PA739

There is a mention of Ex-Army Transport Ltd in Colwyn Bay in 1942, and Salford in 1940.